In an embodiment, a method of rendering an infrared mark, can involve providing an image path for an image processing apparatus, wherein the image path integrates infrared mark related functions with regular image processing functions of the image processing apparatus, and rendering the infrared red mark with the image processing apparatus, after subjecting the infrared mark to the infrared mark related functions in the image path of the image processing apparatus.
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5. The method of claim 1 wherein the detection of the information embedded in the infrared mark is performed in L*a*b* space prior to applying other image processing functions of the image processing apparatus.
7. The method of claim 1 wherein the image path comprises a front-end image path.
8. The method of claim 1 wherein the image page comprises a middle function.
9. The method of claim 1 wherein the image path comprises at least one of: a front-end image path and a middle function.
14. The image processing apparatus of claim 10 wherein the detection of the information embedded in the infrared mark is performed in L*a*b* space prior to applying other image processing functions of the image processing apparatus.
16. The image processing apparatus of claim 10 wherein the image path comprises a front-end image path.
17. The image processing apparatus of claim 10 wherein the image page comprises a middle function.
18. The image processing apparatus of claim 10 wherein the image path comprises at least one of: a front-end image path and a middle function.
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